The Shawshank Experience
Subtitle: Tracking the History of the World’s Favorite Movie
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Nov 12, 2016
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9781137532138
Description: "This book features an in-depth analysis of the world's most popular movie, The Shawshank Redemption, delving into issues such as: the significance of race in the film, its cinematic debt to earlier genres, the gothic influences at work in the movie, and the representation of Andy's poster art as cross-gendered signifiers. In addition to exploring the film and novella from which it was adapted, this book also traces the history of the Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield, Ohio, which served as the film's central location, and its relationship to the movie's fictional critical success, inspiring diverse fan bases on the Internet and the evolution of the Shawshank Trail, fourteen of the film's actual site locations that have become a major tourist attraction in central Ohio" -- book cover.
Notes: Source title: The Shawshank Experience: Tracking the History of the World’s Favorite Movie